George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
banquets ill
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.
The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.
husband masters
The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
law twenties suits
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]
world
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
physicians
The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).
beast ill
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
sheep has-beens
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
wise hands mouths
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]
keys wife house
The wife is the key of the house.
way ill neighbour
The way is an ill neighbour.
war long enemy
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]
coward
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
tree
The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.